Where Do We Go Berkeley
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 852318039
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2023
- Forms available
- Form 990 2021, Form 990-EZ 2023
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, USA
- Phone
- 5109999394
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $166,611
- Expenses
- $113,756
- Assets
- $52,855
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Ian Cordova Morales (President)
People named in this filing
- Paul Blake (Treasurer)
- Jeffery Shonberg (Director)
- Juanita Roles (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2023. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Where Do We Go Berkeley is an advocacy group that also provides outreach andmaterial support for people experiencing homelessness in Berkeley. We providesupport in the form of food, clothing, tents, and transportation. We also work toaddress the safety concerns of people such as fire abatement and coordinatingcleanups. Through our advocacy we are actively engaged with state leadership, Cal-Trans, city council members and other government employees to fight for thefair treatment of unhoused people.
What it reported doing in 2023
Where Do We Go provides material support by handing out survival gear such as tents, tarps, sleeping bags, and other items to the homeless. We also pay for car repairs for vehicles used as a home. We pay for public storage to assist unhoused individuals with keeping their belongings We provide food, water and other items needed to survive. All of these items are freely available. WDWG hands out items 7 days a week as needed.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and assets have declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67.4%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 98.7%; rating input score 99
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 31.7%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.46; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.9% per year; rating input score 100; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -13.2% per year; rating input score 0; 9th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67.4% of revenue deployed · 98.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $112K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2020 to 2023
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 35/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.